Top 1200 British Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love British female directors lately.

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

You are part of our Great British family.

I don't really like British comedy.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Earnestness makes British people gag.

We're obviously a London band, and British at heart.

I think I have an inbuilt British skepticism.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

I very much consider myself British.

British fans are very warm-hearted.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

I support British designers as much as I can.

I grew up with British rock.

The British government is a murder machine.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

I love London and British women.

'The Imitation Game' is a very British film.

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

I would love to do a British period drama.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

I've had a fantastic relationship with the British public.

I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I think we could try to encourage - and I think this is what diplomacy should do - encourage the self-interests of all parties to believe that it is in their best interest to get evil actors or rogue actors such as Syria or Iran, if you try to have less belligerent and less bellicose behavior.

I boxed for the British title in my ninth fight.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.